Word List / Music & The Arts :.
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1. a cappello (ä' kə-pě'lō)
- a. (adj.) To sing a solo in a cappella.
Example: I don't even need the beat I can rock it a cappello!
2. blellow (blĕl'ō)
- a. (adj.) The color produced when mixing blue and yellow, used when green is just too mundane a word.
3. blurple (blûr'pəl)
- a. (n.) A color described as a mix between blue with purple.
4. coinophony (koin'ŭ-fō'nē)
- a. (n.) Annoying pocket concerts that people make when they jingle keys and loose change around.
5. dark matter song (därk măt'ər sŏng)
- a. (n.) A song of such awfulness that it alone outweighs the rest of an artist or band's body of work.
Example: "Shiny Happy People" is REM's dark matter song and "Walk of Life" is Dire Straits'.
6. defugalty (dē-fyü'gəl-tē )
- a. (n.) A sound that has had its musical fugue styling removed.
7. dject (dē-jĕkt)
- a. (v.) The overwhelming urge of a music connoisseur to wait until the end of the currently playing song before changing the song or ejecting the compact disc.
Example: Just wait for a moment while I dject this CD and put on something else.
8. emo (ē-mō)
- a. (n.) Abbreviated from "emotive hardcore", relating to a genre of music coined due to a band's usage of emotional and personal lyrics.
- b. (adj.) An individual who is a follower of emo music.
Example: You're so emo. - c. (adj.) A style of dress used by followers of 'emo'. This dress sense includes trucker caps, long fringes for boys, short hair for girls, black clothes and tight trousers.
Example: Those emo trousers are kickin'.
9. flake (flāk)
- a. (n.) Slang. A knock-off production or product made to appear as good as the superior work or product from which it came.
Example: This grocer's brand orange juice is just a flake made from a powder mix.
10. foxymoron (fŏk'sē-môr'ŏn')
- a. (n.) A band name.
- b. (n.) A member of the opposite sex blessed with beauty and cursed with stupidity, whose presence causes contradictory feelings of attraction and repulsion.
11. gank (găngk)
- a. (v.) To take for one's self; to steal a part of a song from another song and pretend it's one's own.
Example: "You totally ganked that chord progression from Ace of Base."
12. Gerardgasm (jûr-rärd'găz'əm)
- a. (n.) Feelings of ecstasy one might get from hearing singer Gerard Way.
13. guitarded (gĭ-tärd-ĕd)
- a. (adj.) One who owns a guitar and displays it prominently to make oneself appear more attractive, even though they have no idea how play.
14. jampage (jăm'pāj')
- a. (v.) The screaming and dancing rampage one goes on when they jam or stub a body part on a household object.
- b. (n.) A jamming session that is rampageous enough to make the listener believe that the musician is crazy.
15. jazams (jăz'əmz')
- a. (n.) A music composition.
Example: I'm listening to some jazams.
16. megapixures (mĕg'ə-pĭks'ərs)
- a. (n.pl.) Pictures taken with a digital camera or prints made from digital files.
17. nerd hero (nûrd hîr'ō)
- a. (n.) Any nerd-core artist or enthusiast who pretends to have mad skills with a guitar by displaying his/her Guitar Hero® guitar controller during concert, or by demonstrating his excellence in game.
18. octavize (ŏk-tĭv-īz')
- a. (v.) To write musical parts in octaves; to make musical parts to be in octaves.
Examples:
The composer octavized the part to make it richer.
Yes, I will octavize that part later.
19. peppupop (pĕp'ü-pŏp)
- a. (n.) Contemporary music with a lively beat that is particularly energizing and uplifting to listen to; may also have overly happy or fluffy lyrics.
Example: I listen to Smile.DK when I need a dose of peppupop.
20. Rockter scale, The (rŏk'tər skāl)
- a. (n.) A scale from 1 to 10 measuring the seismic force of a particular gig. 10 on the Rockter scale would be a gig that caused localised geological upheaval. 1 would be Culture Club.
Example: The We Are Scientists gig on Saturday was definitely an 8 on the Rockter scale.
21. Sydnocentric (sĭd'nō-sĕn'trĭk)
- a. (adj.) Attitude peculiar to residents of Sydney that asserts that only events and objects based within Sydney have any cultural worth.
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